Tamar Fox
Tamar Fox is an associate editor at MyJewishLearning.com. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Vanderbilt University, and a BA from the University of Iowa. She has worked as the editor of the religion blog at Jewcy.com, and is on the Editorial Board at The Jew and the Carrot. She spent a summer as a fellow at Yeshivat Hadar, and was a Senior Apprentice Artist for four years at Gallery 37 in Chicago.
Articles by Tamar Fox
You Never Forget Your First Time
Not long ago I wrote about that old die-hard myth of Jews having sex through a hole in the sheet. ...
Many Takes on Hamantaschen
We’re closing in on Purim, and in my apartment that means it’s time to start making candy vodka, and of ...
The Dangers of Jewish Food
Do you know about Uncyclopedia? It looks like Wikipedia, but it bills itself as “a content-free encyclopedia that anyone can ...
Help Poor Me
You know how sometimes you have a song in your iTunes library, and you know you like it, but somehow ...
The Curse of the Vegetarian Potluck
If you’re active in a certain kind of Jewish community, you’re invited to vegetarian potluck Shabbat meals on a fairly ...
No Orthodox Glory Holes
Aliza Hausman just posted a great video by Ma Nishtana about mythbusting that whole Jews have sex through a hole ...
Wise Fridays: Love and Honor
This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no ...
Organic Kosher Cookbook: A Cookbook Review
A few months ago I heard some friends raving about a new Jewish cookbook, “The Organic Kosher Kitchen.” I’m a ...
In the Dark
Tomorrow at shul we’re going to read about the final three plagues: locust, darkness, and the death of the firstborn.While ...
Phylactery, Olfactory, Same Thing
Oy vey. Check out this video of the Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia police department talking about the plane that ...